Bill's Movie News and Reviews

This blog will present news items about the motion picture business, with emphasis on lower budget, independent film in most cases. Some reviews or commentaries on specific films, with emphasis on significance (artistic or political) or comparison, are presented. Note: No one pays me for these reviews; they are not "endorsements"! Starting in May 2016, many of the reviews for new feature films have been done on a hosted Wordpress site, and this blog now mostly does shorts and older films.

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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Friday, May 24, 2019

“The Last Broadcast” is a quirky and gritty horror film layered as a docudrama that I saw
at the Bell Auditorium of the University of Minnesota in 1998.It was one of the first digitally projected
films ever shown in a theater.

The film was compared to “The Blair Witch Project” at the
time, which we may return to later.

The plot concerns the brutal murders of three young men in
the New Jersey Pine Barrens (south of Fort Dix) in December 1995. The young men
were documenting the supposed existence of the “Jersey Devil”.One of their own, Jim Suard, had an argument
with the others and left and was later convicted of their death, perhaps
wrongfully.

The style of the film is to play the “fact or fiction”
question in layered fashion.

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

“Venezuela Embassy Standoff”, a film by Ford Fischer from
News2Share, for Subverse.

The 25-minute film chronicles the confrontation between Guaido’s
new government in Venezuela and the remains of the Maduro administration.A group called the Embassy Protection
Collective and Code Pink tried to hold the fort.

Gradually, food supplies, and water and electricity were cut
off.

There is controversy over whether Maduro’s government (essentially
communist) was illegal after the end of January.

On the other hand, some say that the US’s eventually
entering was illegal.

Monday, May 20, 2019

On Monday, May 20, 2019, PBS Independent Lens aired Suzannah
Herbert’s film “Wrestle” (86 min), about a high school wrestling team in Alabama,
a tournament, a tough-love coach Chris Scribner, and the challenges that many
of the young men face at home and in the community, link.

The film has shown in several festivals, like Denver, Hot
Springs, and Oxford (MS).

There is a moment of triumph at the end for one of the team
members. The film emphasizes that the sport is both an individual and a team sport. You have to make weight, have discipline. And it can be intimate. It's an unusual sport.

The film takes place in Huntsville, in the northern part of
the state near the YN border, where the NASA space center is.I visited that in 2014, and earlier in 1989,
where there was an underwater training exhibition then.

Sunday, May 19, 2019

“A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”,
an animated short film by The Interceptm 8 minutes, directed by Kim Boekbinder
and Jim Baat.

AOC narrates an optimistic Green New Deal in which humankind
and start to reverse climate change in 12 years – or else.

She points out that Exxon started doing studies on carbon
dioxide emissions in 1977, just four years after the Arab Oil Embargo of 1073 when
the mantra was to produce more oil and gas. By the late 1980s, people were
starting to notice the possibility that climate would be a big issue.

She also explains her “socialist” agenda.She points out that her native Puerto Rico
lost more people to Hurricane Maria than NYC did in 9/11.

There are some reports that California may ban internal
combustion engines in the future and allow only all electric.How can you have adequate range?

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Represent Us with Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Silver give us
a short film “Unbreaking America: Solving the Corruption Crisis” directed by M.
J. Delaney (13 minutes).

The two hosts explain why normal political participation
gives average votes very little say in policies that get passed.There are several problems:Gerrymandering, a partisan duopoly, and elimination
systems that require politicians to raise astronomical amounts of money from
special interests to win, which feeds the paid lobbying (K Street in
Washington) industry.

There are three “lines” in the film.One is a flat line of zero slope showing that
the level of popular support for any policy (say Medicare for all) has almost
no effect on whether it passes.The
other is that national changes occur when enough states make their
changes.Lawrence cited both interracial
marriage and then same-sex marriage as examples of this process.The third line is user participation.

The ending of the film does suggest starting a movement,
knocking on doors, and the like. But the underlying ideas are important.The group “Better Angels” comes to mind. It
is hosting a closed viewing party premiere May 17.

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Local Washington DC stations report that a 10 year old with
cancer (now in remission) Mason Bronner, made a short film “The Fallen” as a
superhero movie as part of a make-a-wish project. NBCWashington story here.

The film was premiered at the AMC Uptown theater tonight in
Washington DC. (with its giant curved screen).

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